Word: diets
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...Japan's largest international NGOs, Peace Winds Japan, which operates everywhere from Sudan to East Timor. Today, the 41-year-old Osaka native has noticed that his countrymen no longer consider helping less fortunate foreigners a shameful occupation. Two former Peace Winds alumni now serve in the Diet, while Onishi recently has been fielding job queries from disillusioned investment bankers. "People in Japan live in such comfortable, peaceful conditions," says Onishi. "I think more Japanese are realizing that it's our duty to help out overseas and bring some of our values to the world...
...households reduced their food intake owing to a lack of money 1 in 14 households filled out their diet by eating a smaller variety or by using federal food programs, food pantries or other coping strategies 1 in 6 households with children couldn't afford to buy enough food to adequately feed all its members...
...this by following the vegetable's unique chemical markers that persist even after it's been processed and mixed with other ingredients or eaten as cattle feed. (Corn is heavily used in feedlots to fatten cows up before slaughter.) Fast food critics say a single-source, corn-based diet is unsustainable, because the commodity is is heavily subsidized by the government and requires large amounts of fertilizer, water and fuel. TIME talked Jahren about why fast food represents the American diet, what we have in common with Germans and why fast food restaurants are depressing...
...full day's supply of calories. If you go into one of those restaurants, you will see a constant stream of people all day long. This isn't a study about fast food. It's a study about a big portion of the American diet. I'd be glad to walk into many, many dinner times in many, many cities and sample everybody's plate, but this was a pretty good way of doing just that...
...What did you find out about the health of the livestock and the health of people eating the food? The take-home message is that there's a real information gap for the consumer. Diet-related diseases are on the rise. If you're suffering from them, your doctor is going to tell you that you've got to make informed decisions about what you eat. If you go and try to get this information in order to make these decisions, it's pretty much impossible. You've got to wonder why you have to do nuclear chemistry...